I have thought of the same idea... There is a little project in the works, called xwinx (www.xwinx.org), which is like VNC, but takes the entire desktop through the X protocol. (It doesnt require a VNC client, only an X server)
I have looked at the code, and for fun, poked at it a bit. I have gotten it to display a single window, instead of a full desktop. Possibly, this type of idea could be extended, and wrapped in a nice little spawining script, where if you wanted to run something... say MS Word, you could ship MS Word across your network to your X server. Of course, this means some coding to get it to work, and may not be extremely feasable, but it could be more of what you are looking for. Brian --- Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With an X server running on a Win32 machine, it's possible to run X > applications (e.g. on Linux) and have them sent over the network to appear > on the Win32 machine. > > However, has anybody tried the other way around -- having Windows > applications appearing on a Linux desktop, the Windows applications all > being run through a specific Windows (NT) based application server? > > For example, imagine a network running almost entirely Linux, but needing > to run a few legacy Windows applications. What I would like is for the user > (sitting in front of Linux box with X) to be able to click on an icon for a > Windows application, causing the application to start running on a Windows > (NT) based application server. The program would entirely run on the > Windows server, but the screen output would be sent over the network so it > could be controlled by the user sitting on their Linux/X machine. > > I'm just wondering if this is possible? > > Many thanks, > Chris Howells > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
